PORTGSE 180

Main Course

Topics in Visual Culture

Description

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: Portuguese 25 or 26 or 27. Study of visual knowledge production in Latin America and Iberia as complex relation between visual subjects, practices, and representation in Latin American, Afro-Luso-Brazilian, and Iberian contexts. Objects of analysis may include architecture and urban design, digital media and other technologies, documentaries, fashion, fictional and experimental films, graphic novels and other media, maps and cartography, photography, plastic arts, and art history, theater and performance, video, among others. May be repeated four times for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.

Prerequisites

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  • Required: PORTGSE 25

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  • Required: PORTGSE 26

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  • Required: PORTGSE 27

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